I didn't want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you good night — and there's a lot of difference.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

Never confuse motions with action.

I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.